Michael: [on the phone] Is your friend Meg Pryor there with you? Her mother said that she might be.

Roxanne: [to Meg] He wants you.

Meg: I'm not here.

Roxanne: [back to the phone] She's not here. Can I take a message?

Michael: Yes you can. You can tell Meg that there is no excuse for what she did today. Because for every kid that dances on our show, there are a thousand - no, ten thousand - kids who wish they could.

Roxanne: What did she do?

Michael: What did she do? She walked off the set right in the middle of the show. So you can tell Meg that if she plans on coming back to our show, she better take it a little bit more seriously next time, ok? Even if her best friend didn't get a chance to come back this week.

Roxanne: I'll tell her. And you can count on her to take it very seriously from now on. In fact, I can guarantee that she'll be here next show. Oh, and so will I. Bye, Mike. [hangs up]

Meg: Um I have to leave the show.

Michael: What?

Meg: The only reason I'm on American Bandstand is because my best friend Roxanne Bojarski got us on. So I can't be on the show unless she is too. So if you want her to dance the show, that would be really great, but you have to call her and ask her. Or else I can't be on the show. I just can't. [hands Michael phone number and walks off]

Helen: That's what's so exciting. Come here. Come sit with me. Come up here. It's a big adventure. Like the first time you rode the roller coaster at Willow Grove. You were so excited. Remember what it was like when the car was going up? And you kept asking, "What's it gonna feel like when we go down? How fast are we gonna go?" You were so excited. Because you didn't know what was gonna happen. Well, that's what the future's like. Except there are no tracks. That's what makes it an adventure.

Luke: Yeah, you, Betty. And uh, you can bring Veronica too if you like.

Meg: Her name is Roxanne. And bring her where?

Luke: Somewhere we play music, not rate it. [walks away]

Luke: You know, this next song is by a guy named Beethoven. And while most people like the melody, I like it because its got a nice beat and heck, I can dance to it. I'd give it an 88.

Luke: Just wait till Saturday night. In the church, better acoustics, packed house. That's when you really want to be here.

Meg: How did you learn to play like that? It's so-

Luke: Meg. In case you missed it, that was an invitation. Unless you have plans, then-

Meg: No. No, no plans. I mean, I was gonna take Will to see The Nutty Professor but that was just because I thought I wasn't doing anything. But it was a thought, it wasn't really a plan. So, um, I'll tell Roxanne. We'd love to.

Luke: Meg, do you think Roxanne would mind?

Meg: Mind what?

Luke: Not coming with you.

Gus: I told you, this British Music ain't never gonna catch on.

Roxanne: I'll just stay here and read the New Testament. I'll work on Matthew, Mark, and John. You can work on...Luke.

Roxanne: [while Luke and Meg are kissing] Sorry, I know I'm interrupting, but The Ed Sullivan Show starts in three minutes. Priorities.

Roxanne: Can I get anything?

Luke: I'll have a soda. [Roxanne walks to kitchen] Oh, and get one for my girlfriend too. [Everyone stares at them]

Luke: What did you want me to say?

Meg: When?

Luke: At Bandstand.

Meg: Nothing. Did you even?- nothing.

Luke: All right then. [walks away]

Meg: Wait. [Luke turns around] Why did you kiss me? On Christmas Eve? Did you feel sorry for me? Did you think I looked pretty then, and I haven't looked pretty since? Do you ever think about kissing me again?

Luke: All the time.

Dick Clark: And the top 3 songs this week, [Meg and Roxanne mouthing along]All My Loving, She Loves You, and...

Roxanne & Meg: I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND!

American Bandstand dancers: [huddled around a TV showing the Beatles] Do you think they have girlfriends?

Michael: Alyssa got kicked off the show because her skirt was too short, Jeff got caught sneaking into Lesley Gore’s dressing room…

Roxanne: But the grammar’s good, right?

Michael: It’s all lies Roxanne. I don’t know how you could even write this stuff.

Roxanne: I was just trying to spice it up a little bit.

Meg: What if you were doing something other people think is wrong?

Helen: Meg, all of my life, I’ve pretty much done what other people think is right. Maybe, maybe that doesn’t always work out so well. What I mean is, I think we should be able to choose our own friends.

Dancer: Be the water, up here. [Raises Meg’s arms straight up like a shower and dances like he’s taking a shower]

Michael: Is she actually pretending to be a shower?

Gus: My guess is he’s got her being the water.

Michael: Wow.

Roxanne: [referring to Meg] She doesn’t have a mean bone in her body, except when it comes to Patty. But if you met Patty, you’d understand why.

Roxanne: Uh, some of the other columns I’ve been reading in other magazines, well they have little pictures of the journalists in the upper right-hand corner of the page. And I was just thinking that since you have such an attractive journalist…

Michael: Hey, not a snowball's chance in hell. Have a good show, Roxanne.

Meg: And all we do is argue. And a lot of the time, I don't even like you. And Jimmy is nice and sweet and he says all the right things at the right time-

Luke: Meg-

Meg: Luke, just let me finish for once! And all we do is fight. And just when I think there's nothing else to fight about, we come up with something more. And, so, we broke up. But ever since then, I just, I can't stop thinking about you. About me and you. Ok now you can talk.

Luke: Me too.

Meg: Me too what?

Luke: All of it. Me too. And I think-

Meg: Wait! Darn it. I wanted to do that whole thing after I did this. [Turns on record to play "Going Out of My Head"]